

Hill 488
Author: Ray Hildreth, Charles W. Sasser
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/29/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Military Nonfiction
Synopsis
During the early evening of June 15, a battalion of hardened North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong—outnumbering the Americans 25 to 1—threw everything they had at the sixteen Marines and two Navy corpsmen for the rest of that terror-filled night. Every man who held the hill was either killed or wounded defending the ground with unbelievable courage and unflagging determination—even as reinforcements were on the way.
All they had to do was make it until dawn . . .